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Cornerstone-Saba Acquisition: What Does it Mean for LMS Customers?

Talented Learning

Cornerstone plans to acquire Saba for a hefty $1.395 billion. Before jumping into my analysis, let’s step back and look at several relevant facts: What Does Cornerstone Say About This Deal? When speaking with industry analysts, Cornerstone emphasized 3 key benefits of this deal. Have you heard the news? Impressive.

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Cornerstone Acquisition of Saba ? What you need 2 know

eLearning 24-7

There has been a lot of talk recently of the acquisition of Saba by Cornerstone. Question: I am a current Saba Cloud customer, will I have to switch over to Cornerstone? If you are an existing customer of Saba Cloud, including folks who are using the on-premise version, you can stay on the system(s). A nswer: No.

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The Cornerstone Acquisition

eLearning 24-7

I bring this up, because after it was announced that Cornerstone will be acquiring SumTotal, the pundits went out and espoused some very interesting ideas. Cornerstone LMS still is overall an employee-facing system. I refer to these as combo systems, and depending on the vendor, the percentage of audiences can sway back and forth.

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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

Then Cornerstone came along and bought SumTotal for peanuts, which was a good idea, and here we are with SumTotal. However, ND never hit its stride and had the potential to do so – the very first vendor, whereas you could use part of it via a jump drive (true). Adobe was the first vendor to use templates to create courses.

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Docebo: The hottest learning tech company in years

Docebo

Vendors like Degreed, BetterUp, EdCast, and LinkedIn command billion-dollar valuations driven by this growth. Vendors like Saba (the pioneer), Plateau (fast follower), SumTotal (conglomerate), and hundreds of others have been acquired. And this, of course, lets new vendors reinvent the space. Enter Docebo.

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The Cornerstone Effect

eLearning 24-7

First off let me be clear, this post is not about the Cornerstone OnDemand LMS in the sense of whether it is a good or bad platform. Several months ago I picked up on a few items other vendors would mention about other systems. Cornerstone is not to blame because they didn’t do anything wrong.

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Vegas and The Learning Conference Scene

eLearning 24-7

This past week, Cornerstone Convergence (more on what I saw, screens, etc.) Attending Cornerstone Convergence held at Resort Worlds (the Frontier was one property that once stood there), brought out some intrigue and in my case, well, me. Overall, I love where Cornerstone is going with learning. Another hotel. Another hotel.